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Zeenat Hansrod with RFI

Pope urges young Catholics to ‘make a mess’ at World Youth Day

Young people cheer as Pope Francis arrives at the welcoming ceremony of the 2023 World Youth Day in Portugal on 3 August. © AP/Armando Franca

In Portugal for World Youth Day, one of Catholicism's largest gatherings, Pope Francis has said he'll continue urging young people to “make a mess” – a reference to the exhortation made during his first youth day event in Rio in 2013, when the Pontiff called on young people to shake things up in their parishes.

The famous call has also come to symbolise Pope Francis’s own revolutionary reforms that have shaken up the Catholic church at large.

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